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'A fine-tuned book-length assemblage of dispersed ‘cerebral offcuts’, virtuosically inventing ‘the shape of a mood’. Nimble and light, precise and seemingly casual: ‘following some line’ of ‘live consciousness’, ‘inner in outer’, ‘what’s around’. Amid doubt, shame, need and fear, there is courage and insouciance, the subtle pleasure of stretching meaning into a variety of imaginative spaces that open up the limits of conventional language and syntax. Condensed, sharp pops of resonant fragments create their own fresh textures and juxtapositions.
'The Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest Award 2021 judges (Kate Lilley, Pam Brown and Melinda Bufton) praised Running Time as 'nimble and light, precise and seemingly casual ... Amid doubt, shame, need and fear, there is courage and insouciance, the subtle pleasure of stretching meaning into a variety of imaginative spaces that open up the limits of conventional language and syntax.' (Publication summary)
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Toby Fitch Reviews Running Time by Emily Stewart
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February no. 108 2023;
— Review of Running Time 2022 selected work poetry'Emily Stewart is the author of numerous chapbooks, including Like and The Internet Blue. Her debut poetry collection Knocks (Vagabond Press 2016) won the inaugural Noel Rowe Poetry Award and reflected an assuredly varied approach as it experimented with multiple voices (not just in monologues but polyphonic within poems), erasure as a feminist poetics (with homage-like condensations of Lydia Davis, Helen Garner, Susan Sontag, Clarice Lispector and more), post-digital affect (extracting poetic value from online idioms in particular, though sometimes overwhelming the poetic value), all while interleaving themes of climate change, the cost of living, and more in an exploration of what it means and feels like to live in so-called Australia in the Anthropocene.' (Introduction)
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Amelia Dale Interviews Emily Stewart
Amelia Dale
(interviewer),
2022
single work
interview
— Appears in: Rabbit , no. 36 2022; (p. 124-128) -
‘It’s Me Talking’ : Poetry’s Vexed First Person
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 443 2022; (p. 43-44)
— Review of Running Time 2022 selected work poetry ; Inheritance 2021 selected work poetry'The lyric subject, literature’s most intimate ‘I’, has vexed critics for centuries. Is it the poet? Is it a fiction, a device? Or is the relation between author and speaker, as Jonathan Culler suggests, ‘indeterminate’, such that ‘any model … that attempts to fix or prescribe that relationship will be inadequate’? Two new award-winning Australian poetry collections offer fine-grained considerations of personhood and the poem’s capacity to represent it.' (Introduction)
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‘It’s Me Talking’ : Poetry’s Vexed First Person
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 443 2022; (p. 43-44)
— Review of Running Time 2022 selected work poetry ; Inheritance 2021 selected work poetry'The lyric subject, literature’s most intimate ‘I’, has vexed critics for centuries. Is it the poet? Is it a fiction, a device? Or is the relation between author and speaker, as Jonathan Culler suggests, ‘indeterminate’, such that ‘any model … that attempts to fix or prescribe that relationship will be inadequate’? Two new award-winning Australian poetry collections offer fine-grained considerations of personhood and the poem’s capacity to represent it.' (Introduction)
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Toby Fitch Reviews Running Time by Emily Stewart
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February no. 108 2023;
— Review of Running Time 2022 selected work poetry'Emily Stewart is the author of numerous chapbooks, including Like and The Internet Blue. Her debut poetry collection Knocks (Vagabond Press 2016) won the inaugural Noel Rowe Poetry Award and reflected an assuredly varied approach as it experimented with multiple voices (not just in monologues but polyphonic within poems), erasure as a feminist poetics (with homage-like condensations of Lydia Davis, Helen Garner, Susan Sontag, Clarice Lispector and more), post-digital affect (extracting poetic value from online idioms in particular, though sometimes overwhelming the poetic value), all while interleaving themes of climate change, the cost of living, and more in an exploration of what it means and feels like to live in so-called Australia in the Anthropocene.' (Introduction)
-
Amelia Dale Interviews Emily Stewart
Amelia Dale
(interviewer),
2022
single work
interview
— Appears in: Rabbit , no. 36 2022; (p. 124-128)
Awards
- 2021 winner Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest